*Note: The symposium itself ends at 17:00 but delegates can enjoy drinks, nibbles and networking until 18:30

Why are we running this symposium?

This Transparency Symposium is an important thought leadership event dedicated to discussing and debating what more can be done to reduce the risk of another
financial crisis.

It is now 10 years since Lehman Brothers collapsed; an event so shocking that it that sent the world economy into cardiac arrest.

Hundreds of thousands of pages of analysis have been published about the Global Financial Crisis; perhaps the most shocking statistic is that according to Oxford University research it
resulted in an additional 100,000 suicides - caused by the consequences of people losing their jobs, homes, and resultant family break-ups.

Reckless risk-taking by banks around the world had magnified the market failings of the world’s financial ecosystem. Massive bail-outs of financial institutions and other palliative monetary and
fiscal policies were employed to prevent a possible complete collapse of the world financial system. The crisis was nonetheless followed by a global economic downturn, the Great Recession and a
catastrophic crisis in the banking system across Europe.

Capitalism was in complete crisis; just as communism had been some 19 years earlier.

In the USA, the Dodd-Frank Act was enacted in the aftermath of the crisis to "promote the financial stability of the United States" and the Basel III capital and liquidity standards were adopted
by countries around the world.

There is so much to be looked at when considering the causes and consequences of the Global Financial Crisis; and even more importantly the big question:

“Can we be sure that enough been done to prevent another crisis?”

Consider these factors, that most agree played a part in the disaster:

- Over-easy credit conditions

- Weak and fraudulent underwriting practices

- Predatory lending

- Growth of the housing bubble

- The subprime mortgage bubble

- Financial over-innovation and over-complexity

- Collateralized debt obligations

- The commodities boom

- Over-leveraging by institutions around the world

- The ‘Too big to fail’ mind-set

- Deregulation

- Incorrect pricing of risk

- Boom and collapse of the shadow banking system

- The inherent instability and systemic risks of crises within capitalism

- The shouts by those who did see it coming not being heard; or perhaps even worse - heard but completely ignored

- Governance failures

- Conflicts of interests

- Debt dependency

- Behavioural finance issues and the underlying human conditions of fear and greed

- Opaque credit markets and the shadow banking system

- A misunderstanding of the organic nature of contagion risk

- Short-termism

- Poor stewardship of capital

- Over-leniency towards those who are to blame

- A lack of court proceedings and prosecutions

Here's a couple of interesting questions:

"How many of those factors are rooted in a lack of transparency?”

"How many of those factors are actually still with us today?”

The socio/political fallout of the Global Financial Crisis has been staggeringly impactful. Consider these issues:

- Austerity policies being implemented around the world

- The rise of Donald Trump

- Brexit? ...and so much more.

The consequences of the Crash have been unimaginably far-reaching, with a devastating impact on many aspects of life around the world.

We'll be taking a look at key questions such as:

- What really caused the crash?

- Who was “asleep at the wheel”?

- Have the lessons been learned?

- Have the Regulators done enough to prevent a repeat?

- Who is actually responsible for preventing another Crash?

- Could it happen all over again?

- What has been the true impact of Quantitative Easing - and who will realy pay the price for it?

- Could greater transparency reduce the chances of a reoccurrence?”

Our overall
purpose for the event is to shine a very bright light onto this important topic; in keeping with the TTF’s mission which is to help fix what’s wrong in financial services by harnessing the
transformational power of transparency.

What's the format going to be?

To
provide the maximum opportunity for all delegates to get fully involved we have structured the event around presentatons, hot topic Power Panels and The Great Big Open Debate; all of which will help create a useful forum for sharing thought leadership
and exploring ideas to help mitigate the risk of another financial crisis.

The Transparency Task Force awards a Transparency Trophy to individuals who are helping to 'lead the way' towards a more transparent financial services sector. They and their organisations are key
to demonstrating exemplary behaviour to the rest of the market.

- About the Transparency Task Force and the new All Party Parliamentary Group on Financial Stability that is being formed; by Andy Agathangelou, Founding Chair, Transparency
Task Force; setting the scene for today's symposium.

FYI
the provisional draft Purpose Statement of the new APPG on Financial Stability is:

"To respond to the universal shared interest in avoiding another Financial Crisis by providing a helpful forum for parliamentarians to work cross-party, developing fledgling
policy initiatives to buttress the resilience of our financial system; supported by participation from industry, academics, experts, think tanks, civil society, campaign groups and
regulators.”

12:00

Presentation delivered byProfessor Charles
Goodhart, Director of the Financial Regulation Research Programme, The London School of Economics and Political Science

- Michael Kumhof, Senior Research Advisor, Research Hub, The Bank of England

- Stuart Woollard, Council Member at The Maturity Institute

- Will Price, Global Pensions Consultant

- Alistair Kellie, Managing Partner, Newgate
Communications

- Deborah Hargreaves, Chief Executive, The High Pay
Centre

13:15

Lunch and networking break

14:15

The
Comedy Sketch; a semi-serious message wrapped in something that's a tad funny. If you find yourself thinking whilst laughing then it's worked!

14:45

Presentation of the Transparency Trophy – who’ll be this symposium’s winner?

15.00

Power Panel #3 -The Campaign and Civil Society groups; plus The
Politicians and The Regulators

Featuring:

- Baroness Ros Altmann, former Pensions Minister

- Neil Esslemont, Head of Industry Liaison, The Pensions Regulator

- Geoff Tily, Senior Economist, the TUC

- Matt Mayer, Co-founder, Economy for the Common Good

- Tom Burgess, Executive Director, Progressive Policy Unit

15:45

Refreshment and networking break

16:15

The
Great Big Open Debate

The Great
Big Open Debate will enable all attendees to reflect on the key themes that the Symposium has brought to the surface.

It's an
opportunity to define differences of opinion but also to build consensus on the key questions, such as:

-
What's the likelihood of another Financial Crisis happening?

-
What else could and should be done to mitigate that risk?

-
What part can greater transparency in the financial system play in averting another Crash?

The Great
Big Open Debate will feature input from all attendees, plus our panellists; it will be a great chance to share what you realy, really think.

Featuring:

- Stephen Clapham, Founder, Behind the
Balance Sheet

- Simon Hill, Chief
Investment Officer, Investment Consulting, Buck

Note: other panellists being
added!

16:55

Key
conclusions, wrap-up and close

17:00

Drinks, nibbles and networking

18:30

Final close

Note:
the Programme will continuously evolve and is therefore subject to change.

Who shouldn't miss this symposium?

This symposium is going to bravely attempt to deal with questions of immense
importance to everybody. We're expecting it to be a very stimulating, engaging and thought-provoking session of very special importance to

Economists

Asset Managers

Industry Observers, Commentators; the Media in General

Academics and researchers

Pensions Policymakers and Regulators; UK and overseas

Pension scheme trustees; professional and lay

Parliamentarians with an interest in the economy and market
conduct

Members of the Department for Work & Pensions

Members of the Financial Conduct Authority

Members of the Competition & Markets Authority

Members of the Prudential Regulation Authority

Members of the Bank of England

Members of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy

Members of the Government Actuarial Department

Bankers and representatives of Banking organisations

Risk Management Professionals

Compliance Professionals

Legal Professionals

Pension Professionals

Financial Services Trade Bodies and Professional Associations

Academics and researchers in governance, stewardship, ethics, conduct and compliance in the banking, investment and pensions space

Pension Providers including MasterTrusts

Think Tanks and Civil Society Groups with an interest in pensions and investment policymaking

Actuaries; and many more...

About the key participants thus far:

(Others being added; and get in touch if you would like to be considered for inclusion in the programme)

Professor Charles Goodhart CBE FBA,

Director of the Financial Regulation Research Programme,

The London School of Economics and Political Science

Charles Goodhart is a highly acclaimed economist.

His career has alternated between academia (Cambridge, 1963-65; LSE, 1967/68; again 1985-date), and work in the official sector, mostly in the Bank of England (Department of Economic Affairs,
1965/66; Bank of England, 1968-85; Monetary Policy Committee, 1997-2000).

He has been a specialist monetary economist, focussing on policy issues and on financial regulation, and has written more books and articles on these subjects than any sane person would want to
read.

Professor Goodhart was a member of the Bank of England's Monetary Policy Committee from June 1997 to May 2000.

He is the developer of Goodhart's law, an economic law named after him and phrased by Marilyn Strathern as: "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure."

Baroness Ros Altmann, CBE

Ros Altmann is a pensions expert with over 35 years’ experience in all aspects of pensions. She was elevated to the House of Lords by David Cameron to become Minister of State for Pensions
after the 2015 General Election and served until July 2016.

She was the UK Government’s Business Champion for Older Workers from 2014 to 2015 and was Director General of over-50s specialists Saga from 2010 to 2013. Ros was awarded a CBE in the Queen’s
Birthday Honours in 2014 for services to Pensioners and Pension Provision.

For many years, Ros has championed pensions justice and led a successful campaign to help 150,000 people receive compensation when their occupational pension schemes collapsed. Her work was
instrumental in setting up the system of UK pension protection.

She appears regularly in the media and writes and comments on economics, pensions, later life and consumer matters. She has won numerous awards, including Pensions Personality of the Year
(twice) and Industry Guru of the Year.

Initially working as an academic analysing occupational pensions and pensioner income, she then began a City career managing pension fund assets. She ran the international equities investment
operation at Chase Manhattan Bank, London and was a Director at N.M. Rothschild and NatWest.

After having her children, she started an independent consultancy, advising Governments, the pensions industry and pension funds on policy and investment strategy, including sitting on several
pension fund boards and investment committees.

Ros has a Ph.D. in Economics from London School of Economics and was a Kennedy Scholar at Harvard. She also has two honorary doctorates awarded for her work on pension investment from
Westminster University Business School and Newcastle University.

Michael Kumhof,

Senior Research Advisor, The Research Hub,

Bank of England

Michael Kumhof is Senior Research Advisor in the Research Hub. He is responsible for co-leading this new Bank of England unit, and for helping to formulate and carry out key parts of its research
agenda.

His previous position was Deputy Division Chief, Economic Modelling Division, IMF, where his responsibilities included the development of the IMF’s global DSGE simulation model. His main research
interests are the quantitative evaluation of monetary reform proposals, modelling the role of banks in the macro-economy, the role of economic inequality in causing imbalances and crises, and the
macroeconomic effects of fossil fuel depletion.

Michael taught economics at Stanford University from 1998 to 2004. He worked in corporate banking for Barclays Bank from 1988 to 1993.

His work has been published by AER, JME, AEJ Macro, JIE, JEDC, JMCB, EER, and Journal of Macroeconomics, among others.

Geoff Tily PhD

Senior Economist,

The TUC

Geoff Tily has been the TUC’s senior economist since
2014, following 25 years in the government’s economics and statistical services (including HM Treasury macro under George Osborne).

Neil and his team are responsible for engaging with pension providers, payroll providers and other suppliers of pension related products, services and advice, as well as
employers.

Our aim is to help them fully understand the rules around workplace pensions – including their own or their client’s duty to automatically enrol eligible workers into a pension
scheme - and the duties of pension scheme managers /trustees, in both public and private sector.

Neil has over 30 years’ experience in dealing with large companies in the private and public sectors. Neil has previously worked as a client director for BT and Siemens, and as a
management consultant for PriceWaterhouseCoopers.

Neil has a technology background in computer software engineering, gained after graduating from Exeter University with a Maths & Physics BSc.

Iain Pickard,

Co-Founder,

Strategia Worldwide

Iain Pickard co-founded Strategia Worldwide in 2016. Iain is a former COO of Marsh’s UK domestic business, COO of a leading Lloyds of London broker, Change Director for AON’s
wholesale/specialty division, Operations Director of Aspen Re, Head of Financial Services at RSM – the global advisory firm – and a UK Financial Conduct Authority authorised ‘Skilled Person’ for Risk
and Governance.

He has advised a wide variety of FS firms on managing regulatory risk and, latterly, was COO/CRO of a London based Fintech firm.

Iain focuses on all aspects of the operations of Strategia Worldwide enabling its strategic growth and also managing complex projects and service delivery for our clients. He fuses 20 years
of military experience of campaign planning with relevant financial, insurance and commercial risk management experience.

Matt Mayer,

Co-founder,

Economy for the Common Good UK

After a successful career in hotel management, Matt Mayer decided to leave the corporate world and pursue a new career in the charitable sector.

While working for the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation he returned to university to complete a master’s degree in Political and Social Science. For his dissertation Matt developed the ‘Theory of
Socio-Economic Alignment’ – an analysis into the use of rationality in the economic sphere.

In 2016, when he came across the Economy for the Common Good movement, he found that this new economic blueprint incorporated the basic concept behind his theory.

Matt consequently helped to bring the Economy for the Common Good to the UK as co-founder of ECG UK.

Tom Burges,

Director,

Progressive Policy Unit

Tom Burgess is Executive Director, Progressive Policy Unit and author of the 2016 book: Frome Here to Prosperity, a practical policy agenda for a sustainable economy and greater
social justice was published by Shepheard-Walwyn as part of their Ethical Economics Series.

He is a Technical Adviser to Tax Justice UK, a consultant to The Equality Trust and a Senior Fellow of Radix, a radical centre think tank, as well as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
(RSA).

Tom had a successful entrepreneurial career in media and communications; his last role was CEO of an international public relations firm. Having once been a full time student
leader, a founding member of the SDP and twice stood for public office, he has also worked as journalist, editor and broadcaster.

While in California he was a volunteer on the Bernie Sanders 2016 campaign and subsequently communications adviser to the national movement to form a new peoples party.

He now seeks to work with organisations involved in minimising inequality and promoting an inclusive political agenda.

Deborah Hargreaves,

Trustee and Founding Director,

High Pay Centre

Deborah was the Chair of the independent High Pay Commission, and Founding Director of the High Pay Centre from 2011 to 2015.

She is the former business editor of the Guardian, a post she held from 2006 to 2010.

She has written extensively about executive remuneration and other business issues both in print and online. She previously worked at the Financial Times where she was news editor and before that,
financial editor. She held a variety of posts over 19 years at the FT including personal finance editor and as a foreign correspondent in Brussels and Chicago.

William Price,

Global Pensions Consultant

William Price is a global pension consultant who has worked for the World Bank, UK Treasury, UK Pension Regulator and in collaboration with
the OECD, IMF and International Organization of Pension Supervisors (IOPS).

He works with governments throughout the world to design systems that improve pension outcomes,
focussing on regulation and supervision, market structure and investment strategy among other areas.

In addition to country engagements in developed and developing countries he works to research and
develop global best practice. He co-created the Outcomes Based Assessments (OBA) and Outcomes and Risk Based Supervision (ORBS) models for pensions and has published extensively on a wide range of
pension issues including the recent book “Saving the Next Billion from Old Age Poverty”.

An economist by training, his career included three Budgets as Private Secretary to Gordon Brown and leading the Assets, Savings and Wealth team at the UK Treasury. His financial policy
expertise combines with past roles on development, macroeconomics and growth including a spell in the IMF/World Bank policy division in the Department for International Development. He was previously
Head of Policy at the UK's Pensions Regulator, vice-chair of the IOPS Technical Committee and was the UK Regulator’s representative on the Board for Actuarial Standards.

In addition to leading consulting projects, he is a Program Leader and Advisory Board member of the Insurance and Pensions programme of the Toronto Centre for Global Leadership in Financial
Supervision and speaks regularly at seminars and conferences.

He gained his first degree from Oxford University and has a Masters in Economics from University College London. He is a member of the Royal Economic Society and Chartered Institute of
Insurance.

Steve Clapham,

Founder,

Behind the Balance Sheet

Behind the Balance Sheet is an investment research consultancy, which produces bespoke research for a small group of institutional clients.

Steve has more recently started a training business which is focused on improving institutional equity investors analytical skills. He has recently been in the press on City AM and on the Today
programme on BBC Radio 4 Today, talking about how earninsg manipulation and fraud among companies is on the rise.

Steve spent 20 odd years as an equity analyst at different investment banks, covering various sectors, and was consistently rated in the top 10 in his sector in Extel, II and Reuters surveys.

He moved to the buy-side in 2005 and was a partner and head of research at two multi-billion dollar hedge funds, based in London; he specialised in using a deep dive research approach to identify
special situation opportunities.

Steve has also worked with a $5bn+ AUM wealth management firm, picking international equities, running high return concentrated global equity portfolios and sitting on the main Investment
Committee.

Steve trained as an accountant and has two young sons. He lives in London and enjoys reading, yoga, and skiing and is interested in investment theory, wine and classic cars.

Gavin Starks,

Founder,

D Gen

Gavin explores the impact of data and the web on business, society and culture.

Amongst many other things he is involved with important, pioneering work that is highly relevant to the mitigation of climate change risk; highly relevant to the topic of financial
stability.

Gavin has co-created over a dozen data-driven organisations to bring multidisciplinary leadership to the digital age. These have addressed data infrastructure, policy, science, communications,
innovation and skills across fintech, climate change, supply-chain management, modern slavery, the circular economy, digital media, telecoms, machine learning, blockchain and the internet of
things.

He co-chaired the development of the Open Banking Standard and was founding CEO of the Open Data Institute.

He is currently convening federated partnership programmes to help address the Sustainable Development Goals; is Advisory Board Chairman at blockchain company, Provenance.org; Non-exec at
circular-economy IoT company, CupClub; Trustee at environmental charity, Blue Ventures; Chairman at Rinse Media Group; strategic advisor to governments, for-profit and non-profit companies who create
global impact with data.

Some detail:

Gavin was the Open Data Institute's founding CEO, working with Sir Nigel Shadbolt and Sir Tim Berners-Lee. Under his leadership, it unlocked over $100M of direct economic impact, incubated over 50
companies, launched franchises across 20 countries, trained 6,000 people, recruited a world-class board and team, and grew its turnover to $7M/y in under three years.

In 2015, at the request of HM Treasury, he co-chaired the development of the Open Banking Standard, laying the foundations for regulation and catalysing international innovation.

He served on the Data, Science and Evidence advisory board of the Ministry of Justice and the Smart London Board reporting to the Mayor’s office.

He has been creating businesses for over 20 years, leading projects with organisations such as Arup, Cap Gemini and the World Bank. He has been recognised as one of the most influential
people in data: winning awards for his innovation and expertise, and providing Parliamentary Select Committee evidence.

He is a regular international speaker on the topic of the web of data and its impact on society.

His previous ventures include: organising the world’s environmental data and standards into an open web-service, AMEE, raising over $10M from leading VCs (sold 2015); chairing development of
the first Gold Standard Carbon Offset; building the world’s leading digital music distributor, CI, the first company to deliver digital products to iTunes, and sent Amazon 25% of its download store
at launch; creating award-winning streaming media company, Tornado in 1999 (sold 2003); joining Branson’s Virgin Net as employee #5 in 1995 to deliver Virgin Net (now Virgin Media).

At Jodrell Bank Radio Observatory, Gavin helped develop systems designed to map and interpret the Universe. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, created courses and lectured in Engineering
and Music at Glasgow University, and has degrees in both Astronomy and in Electronic Music (on which he has published research & released ab album) He converted a century-old ship to
live aboard and built a cooperative historic harbour on the Thames to put it on.

Stuart Woollard,

Council Member,

The Maturity Institute

Stuart Woollard is Managing Partner of OMS LLP and co-founder and Council member at the Maturity Institute (MI).

Stuart is leading pioneering work using MI’s OMINDEX to show how the very best organisations are able to serve society, build effective human value systems and provide the greatest benefit
for all stakeholders.

With the investment community, corporations, policy makers and academia, Stuart advises on improving Total Stakeholder Value through OMINDEX’s whole system diagnosis of
organisational health. Stuart has published research on the management of people in global contexts and is co-authoring a forthcoming book "The Mature Corporation: a Model of Responsible
Capitalism" (Cambridge Scholars Publishing).

Stuart was appointed an Innovation Fellow at King's College London in 2010 and set up King’s and Cornell University executive programs on global human governance. He was part of the international
leadership team at E*TRADE Financial and UK Managing Director, and previously led advisory businesses, both independently and at Arthur Andersen.

Stuart is a regular conference speaker and teaches on MBA and graduate programmes. He studied Economics and Politics at the University of Warwick.

Alistair Kellie,

Managing Partner,

Newgate Communications

Alistair is a Founding Partner of Newgate Communications and heads the Corporate Reputation Practice, focused on financial and professional services.

He has over 22 years' experience advising financial services organisations both in the UK and internationally and has worked on many high-profile transactions and award-winning campaigns.

Clients have ranged from boutiques and family offices to international fund managers, pensions and annuity providers and trade associations.

Alistair is currently advising the Board of Trustees of a number of FTSE100 pension schemes, as well as a leading pension covenant advisory firm.

Simon Hill,

Chief Investment Officer

Buck

Simon Hill is CIO at Buck, responsible for the firm’s economic and investment thinking, as well as advising a number of pension fund and institutional clients on investment strategy and manager
selection.

He chairs the Investment Committee and is a member of the Economic Assumptions Group, the Manager Rating Review Committee, and the DC Solutions group.

Having trained as an economist and financial journalist, he has over 35 years’ experience in the investment management industry, including investment advisory, fund management, product and
business development roles.

His career has encompassed senior positions at major City and global institutions including Citibank, NatWest, Franklin Templeton and Mercer Investment Consulting.

Simon joined Buck in 2007 from the London investment arm of Swiss private bank Sarasin, where he was Head of Institutional Business and managed the Risk & Performance function.

He is a graduate of Balliol College, Oxford University, and is an individually chartered Member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments.

Martin Gorm Pedersen

Founder & CEO

RequirementONE

Grit, hard work and a great idea took Martin from a farm in rural Denmark to the lofty heights of Level 39 in Canary Wharf.

Martin learned to code at the age of 10 and he formed his first software business at the age of 15. His passion for technology was apparent from an early age. At 19, turned down by IBM for not
having a Ph.D., Martin’s passion led him to Maersk to work on one of the world’s largest military projects.

Martin founded RequirementONE in Silicon Valley and later relocated to London. Martin launched RequirementONE’s enterprise software offering in late 2015 helping firms around the world automate
their business processes using AI.

Today, RequirementONE counts some of the largest names in insurance, law, banking as well as the US government as clients and continues to go from strength to strength in helping professional
teams utilise best-in-class technology to manage their compliance management activities.

Andy Agathangelou FRSA,

Founding Chair,

Transparency Task Force

Andy will be Chairing the Symposium. His overall objective is to galvanise support for the
idea that greater transparency in financial services can drive positive, transformational change for the benefit of all.

Andy formed the Transparency Task Force following a meeting he led at Senate House, University of London on 6th May 2015. The meeting was the
about the trust deficit that is impacting financial services and how harnessing the transformational power of transparency can drive the change that is needed.

That meeting set off a chain of events that led directly to the creation of our collaborative, campaigning community which is built
on the idea that 'Sunlight is the Best Disinfectant'.

Since 6th May 2015 he has recruited, organised and mobilised over 300 volunteers around the world into 13
Teams:

Our 13 Teams are the 'engine room' of the Transparency Task Force's work. Each Team is focused on a particular set of
opacity-related challenges whereby subject-matter experts work together on a completely voluntary basis to develop and implement strategies to overcome those challenges.

Andy is also:

Founding Chair, the Technology Task Force

Chair, the Interoperability Steering Group

Governor, Pensions Policy Institute

Fellow, the RSA

Chair, Pensions BIB,

Member, Investment Association Advisory Board on Cost Disclosure

Former Founding Chair, Friends of Auto Enrolment

Former Founding Chair, Friends of the Association of Member Nominated Trustees

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